By Felix Ker on August 26, 2009

gladlycast

I’ve seen gladlyCast around for quite awhile but only decided to give it a try. I’ve never wanted to try because Internet was almost available to me anytime.

My short experience with gladlyCast was smooth, but not so smooth too. Here’s why.

That’s not my number!

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I purposely tested the server with a few mobile numbers. After sending in, I clicked on “That’s not my number!”, I was redirected back to the same “Confirm your number” page within seconds. That wasn’t so helpful. I don’t know why this happened and I’m making a guess that the page already discovered that I’ve sent a message to the service with the “secret message”.

Phone number display – could be improved!

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I verified my mobile number with a Singapore line. Why did the site show me a Malaysian number and expected me to mouseover to find the other. I thought since the site was so sweet and simple, they could lay it side by side.

Oh, when I was shown the secret message, I was given the same screen whereby I could mouseover and select a number and click. I clicked on the Malaysian number, but confirmed with a Singaporean line. Amazingly, everything worked! I thought this would be alittle misleading. Heh.

What mobile network?

+6012795 9876 looks like it’s running on Maxis, but since Malaysia telcos allow number porting, the number could be on DiGi or even Celcom. gladlyCast, will you be able to specify the network, and maybe expand on the mobile lines? I’m on Digi and I am willing to sponsor a Digi prepaid card for a year or two. (I do know Digi has a plan that allow free smses after first 50cents each day!) :)

P.S I’m not trying to find fault, but my first secret message was “Jack likes Brian”. Isn’t that gay?

By Felix Ker on December 28, 2007

I had quite a hard time trying thinking of the categories I should have.

Online

  1. Started felixker.com as a blog writing about everything that caught my attention; topics include news, technology, love, media, money, tips & tricks, web links & many more. (Yea, alittle about SEX too.)
  2. Modified & made 2 WordPress themes – Widgets-enabled Three Columns Kubrick Theme and Curved 3-Columns WordPress Theme
  3. Got myself 2 Virtual private servers (VPS). One in Singapore, for SGBloggers & Modish Media and another in New York (Named after a gorgeous lady I met – heart Melissa) for Web & DNS Hosting.
  4. Decided that I should provide WordPress Blog Hosting (So gossipy). Yet to do any marketing for that site yet.
  5. Sponsored blogs – Edwin’s Blog, Anna’s Blog (ritzily Stylish)
  6. (Almost) Daily Twittering became my habit – twitter.com/felixker
  7. Switched to use felix[@]ker[dot]sg as my main contact email and MSN. Old emails are still checked, but just less often.
  8. Formally using Internet Explorer 7 to read news/blog/web feeds, recently I upgraded to using Google Reader. (May consider trying Bloglines next year!)
  9. Joined Ping.SG and started pinging my blog for attention!

Can’t think of anything else. Do you know something I did in 2007 that’s worth mentioning? What have you done in 2007 that u think is worth sharing?

By Felix Ker on October 15, 2007

Curved 3-Columns Preview

Curved 3-Columns is modified based on Curved WordPress Theme designed by Aditi Tuteja from TextNData. This theme have a very unusual look and it is currently being used on our blog. It is named “Curved” because of the nice rounded corner search box in header. This 3-Columns theme supports widgets and have a nice striped header along with tabbed navigation.

Curved (three columns) is very similar to what I am using right now.

Why 3-Columns?

There’s an increasing number of web logs having 2 sidebars (3 columns) for more content. You can have :

  • Advertisements
  • Widgets (MyBlogLog, BlogCatalog, whos.amung.us, alexa, technorati, etc)
  • Top Commentors
  • Archives
  • Frequent Tags
  • Recent Comments
  • Categories
  • Twitter
  • Popular Articles/Top Reads
  • Recent Entries
  • and so much more…

And that’s why I’m using a 3-columns design.

Speficications

Content (Blog entries) – 430 pixels

First (Left) sidebar – 260 pixels

Second (Right) sidebar – 190 pixels

Usage/Installation

Templates included: Archive

Install this theme like how you install any other theme; Upload the whole folder to wp-content/themes and activate it.

Feel free to customize it as much as you like.

Updates

v1.0.1 -17 November 2007 – - Minor cosmetic fix for comments
v1.0.0 – 15 October 2007 – First public release

Download

Download Curved 3-Columns WordPress Theme (Zip; 98kb)